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Introduction Poland is located in Central Europe, east of Germany. The population is 38,415,284 (July 2012 est.), Poland total area is 312,685 sq km which is not that big, it is smaller then New Mexico. The climate temperature when its winter is cold and frequently of precipitation, when its summer there is a lot of thunderstorms and a lot of raining. There natural resources are: coal, sulfur, copper, natural gas, silver, lead, salt, amber, arable land. The ethnic languages are: Polish 96.7%, German 0.4%, Belarusian 0.1%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 2.7%.



Birth rate: 9.96 births/1,000 population (2012 est.) According yo CIA website we are 197 in comparison of the world. Poland has a high birth rate, this means that there are more young people then old people, and that people are having babies.

Death rate: 10.24 deaths/1,000 population (2012 est.)The death rate comparison to other places of the world is #197.We are not having that much death rate. .That is good in a way because people are living more instead of dying early. The health rate is good.

Net migration rate- -0.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.) The comparison of the world, poland is number 138. We have more immigrants than emigrants. This means that people don't go and visit poland. More citizens are living in poland then emigrants. This is bad because a way of gaining money is by the emigrants when they come to the country.

Infant mortality rate: total: 6.42 deaths/1,000 live births, male: 7.12 deaths/1,000 live births female: 5.67 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.) Well the total comparison of the world its number 168. Which Poland is not high. This means that not a lot of children die when they are new born. As you can see the male rate is higher then the female rate.

Life expectancy: total population: 76.25 years male: 7.12 deaths/1,000 live births female: 5.67 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.) Life expectancy comparing Poland to other countries we are #78. Which is good. As you can see females last longer. Females last longer because, females take care of their selves, they eat healthy, they maintain a good body, they take care of there body, etc.

Population growth rate: -0.075% (2012 est.) The population growth is bad ,this means that the population instead of increasing is decreasing.

Doubling time: 69 years, It took 69 years for population to double. They are going very slow considering the amount of people they have living there.


 * __//What stage of the Demographic Transition Model is Poland in? Is it a MEDC or a LEDC?//__**

Poland is MEDC. As we can se the capital and surrounding areas have a good amount of development and sustainability of wealth creation. They have a better standards of living, they have small families because they know that is expensive to have a child.

//__** Major population issues facing Poland **__// -In the year 2010 there was a flooding in poland, it was known as the worst natural disaster in Polish history. -There were 27,000 people that have HIVs its a high number of people. -Air quality is a major factor affecting human health, an unfortunately is a priority of Poland’s environmental. -The obesity is a high average its 18%, in comparison to the earth is 28%.Poland is the number 24 out of 80 countries.

Reference https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pl.html http://geographyfieldwork.com/DemographicTransition.htm- http://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/countries/pl/soertopic_view?topic=air%20pollution http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-05-21/news/30007249_1_zloty-vistula-poland-s-gdp